Mighty Peking Man
by Meng Hua Ho
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Actor: Danny Lee, Evelyne Kraft, Feng Ku, Norman Chu, Wei Tu LinDirector: Meng Hua Ho
Cinematographer: Cho-Hua Wu
Cinematographer: Hui-chi Tsao
Editor: Hsing-lung Chiang
Producer: Runme Shaw
Producer: Vee King Shaw
Writer: Kuang Ni
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Mighty Peking Man
Movie Review: No love like this
Summary: 4 Stars
I find the high-budget King Kong versions lack the "charm" or "love" of this D-grade counterpart, which is why I won't even own Peter Jackson's visual overkill (has no heart). To appreciate this one, you need to have a grasp of the heightened sense of drama, a caricature of its other lavish counterparts. Makes no sense that our hero Johnnie gets his heart broken when he catches his brother sleeping with his fiancee and then flies to India on a whim to find the Mighty Peking Man. Just like that. Like an extreme soap opera. But if you go with it, it makes a lot of sense. It's like the filmmakers are saying, "This is what comprises a hit movie." So with that formula, they also have the gorgeous Evelyn Kraft as Samantha the jungle girl. Apparently, in modern American pop culture, ANY blonde woman is considered beautiful, which is utter nonsense. Which is why it's rare to have this gorgeous blonde represent beauty. Major gripe for me though is that in the Hong Kong trailer (found on Youtube), there is nudity, but this Quentin Tarantino version is trimmed of it, down to a PG-13. Why didn't Quint just release it unrated, makes it more "underground"? Anyway, would have appreciated Evelyn Kraft's delights, but the movie's pretty fun either way.
Summary of Mighty Peking Man
Sure to drive you wild, here's one of the funniest, most hysterically campy movies ever made: MIGHTY PEKING MAN! A powerful earthquake awakens a giant, apelike creature who descends from the mountains into the treacherous jungles of India. Later, an expedition of greedy showmen capture the fearsome beast, bringing him ... and the scantily clad blonde bombshell he protects ... back to civilization! But payback comes when the Mighty Peking Man breaks loose and begins to run amok in the heart of the city! An outrageous adventure that never takes itself too seriously -- treat yourself to a guilty pleasure that has entertained critics and late-night movie audiences everywhere!What makes Mighty Peking Man such a trashy delight? It's not just the absurdly obvious special effects and atrocious dubbing--those are the easy laughs--it's the over-the-top romantic and dramatic moments that really push this movie into camp heaven. When a gigantic ape-man destroys a village in a remote jungle, a fiendish promoter decides to capture this prehistoric creature and put him on display. He hires Johnny (Danny Lee, who resembles current Canto-pop superstar Andy Lau), a heartbroken adventurer, to hunt Peking Man down. Hardly five minutes go by without some life-threatening danger; in just the first half-hour there's an earthquake, a tiger attack, and a fatal mountain-climbing accident, and that's in addition to the rampaging man-ape and bottle-blond jungle queen Samantha (the lovely Evelyne Kraft), who occasionally falls out of her already skimpy jungle attire. It seems that Samantha survived a plane crash that killed her parents and was kept alive by Peking Man--though where she finds her mascara is never explained. After falling in love with Johnny, she helps him bring Peking Man back to civilization. By the time Peking Man is unleashing devastation on downtown Hong Kong, the movie has reached a giddy delirium that defies all logic. Part soap opera, part monster madness, Mighty Peking Man is completely entertaining. --Bret Fetzer
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